Leadership & Public Service High School

90 Trinity Place | Financial District | built 1973

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1975
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designs the postmodern Trinity Place building
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the postmodern building at 90 Trinity Place in 1975. New York University's Stern School of Business occupied it from the late 1970s until the early 1990s, before the Board of Education leased the building from NYU to house a newly formed public high school.
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1993
Leadership and Public Service High School opens in the building
The Board of Education of the City of New York and Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs opened the High School for Leadership and Public Service at 90 Trinity Place in 1993, one of thirty new small high schools created that year. Renovations were unfinished at first, so the school shared floors with a neighboring school at 100 Trinity Place for its first year.
Source: Wikipedia
2001
September 11
Staff evacuate the school after a plane engine lands on its roof
After the second hijacked plane struck the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, one of its engines came down on the roof of the school, a few blocks away. Principal Ada Rosario-Dolch and other staff evacuated the 14-story building from the top down within minutes and led students to Battery Park. The building was later used as one of the morgue sites.
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